Yeelen (1987)
July 1, 1987Release Date
Yeelen (1987)
July 1, 1987Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Currently Yeelen is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Kanopy
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Issiaka Kane
Niankoro, le fils
Aoua Sangare
Attou, la jeune femme Peul
Niamanto Sanogo
Soma le père
Balla Moussa Keita
Rouma Boll, le roi Peul
Ismaila Sarr
Bofing, l'oncle
Frédéric Duru
Special Effects
Souleymane Cissé
Director
Nikos Meletopoulos
Special Effects
Seipati N'Xumalo
Editor
Marie-Catherine Miqueau
Editor
Salif Keita
Composer
Seipati Keita
Editor
Michel Portal
Composer
Jean-Noël Ferragut
Cinematographer
Jean-Michel Humeau
Cinematographer
Dounamba Coulibaly
Editor
Sékou Ouedraogo
Script Supervisor
Andrée Davanture
Editor
Jenny Frenck
Editor
Fanta Traore
Script Supervisor
Nathalie Goepfert
Editor
Pascal Sautelet
First Assistant Camera
Kossa Mody Keita
ProductionDesigner
Bernard Tiphine
First Assistant Camera
Daniel Ollivier
Sound
Michel Meller
Sound
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Yeelen (Bambara for "brightness"/"light") is a 1987 Malian film directed by Souleymane Cissé. It is filmed in the Bambara and Fula languages, and is based on a legend told by the Bambara people. Though the era is undefined, it is presumably set in the 13th century in the Mali Empire and is a heroic quest narrative featuring magic and precognition.Cissé has stated in an interview for Cahiers du Cinéma that it was "in part made in opposition to European ethnographic films” and that he “wanted to make a response to an external perception, a perception by white technicians and academics, an alien perception."It stars Issiaka Kane as Nianankoro, a young African man who possesses magical powers. Niamanto Sanogo plays Niankoro's father, who is tracking his son through the Bambara, Fulani and Dogon lands of West Africa using a magical wooden post to guide him.